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Very good in Very good jacket. vi, [2], 251, [5] pages. Includes List of Contributors, Notes, and Index. Topics covered include Worktime and Industrialization: An Introduction; Independent Hours: Time and the Artisan in the New Republic; Controlling the Product: Work, Time and the Early Industrial Workforce in Britain, 1800-1850; Work, Leisure, and Moral Reform: The Ten-Hour Movement in New England, 1830-1850; The Political Ideology of Short Time: England, 1820-1850; "The Greater Part of the Petitioners Are Female": The Reduction of Women's Working Hours in the Paid Labor Force, 1840-1917; The Limits of Corporate Reform: Fordism, Taylorism: and the Working Week in the United States, 1914-1919; Worktime in International Discontinuity, 1886-1940; Worktime and Industrialization in the U.S.S.R., 1917-1941; and The New Deal: The Salvation of Work and the End of the Shorter-Hour Movement. Gary Cross is a Distinguished Professor of Modern History at Penn State University. He is the author of Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity (2008) and The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture (2004). This anthology examines the many-sided problem of working in American and European (including Soviet) society from 1800 to 1940. While some of the essays explore this question in the transition to the factory system, providing a fresh perspective on the social history of early industrial work and political culture, other papers interpret hours reform in the context of the modern state. Includes articles by: Howard Rock, Clive Behagg, Teresa Murphy, Stewart Weaver, Kathryn Kish Sklar, David Roediger, William Chase, Lewis Siegelbaum, and Benjamin Hunnicutt.
